[Freeipa-users] DNS: Possible to set a CNAME for bare domain?

Michael Lasevich mlasevich at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 17:20:43 UTC 2014


You cannot have cname for a bare domain in IPA or in any DNS service, it
violates DNS rfc's.
On Oct 4, 2014 10:19 AM, "Will Sheldon" <mail at willsheldon.com> wrote:

>
> Hello everyone : )
>
>
> Is it possible to configure a CNAME for a bare domain with freeIPA?
>
> We would like to move our site over to an Amazon ELB, but to do so we have
> to point our domain (foo.com, not www.foo.com) at an was A record with a
> CNAME (something like xxxxxxxxxxxx.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com)
>
> This is technically possible, but IPA complains:
>
> "invalid 'cnamerecord': CNAME record is not allowed to coexist with any
> other records except PTR"
>
> I’m guessing this is because of the @ NS record.
>
>
> Is there any way to override this behaviour? Can I make manual
> modifications to the zone file?
>
>
>
>
> Will Sheldon
>
>
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